May Day is celebrated throughout the world as International Workers’ Day. The date, May 1, was chosen to honor Chicago’s most famous labor activists, the Haymarket Martyrs, who are buried in Forest Park, where a magnificent monument has attracted visitors since it was erected in 1893. The Martyrs (George Engel, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Oscar Neebe, Albert Parsons, Michael Schwab, August Spies), were accused of conspiracy to commit murder when a […]
